Excellent video you do you demystified for me why you always see these extra set of lines on the map. I never knew quite which ones I should be using. Thanks for the very informative video.
Thanks for another great video. Once again I find myself saying I've never seen this topic so well explained before. Big kudos to you! I really love this video and plan to come back to it as well as the declination video when I need to help new trippers learn.
@@kylep6194 Thanks Kyle. More food videos are on the way. I have taken a bit of a break from those as I complete the book I am working on. The book should be out in about a month from now and you will see more food videos soon :)
Using a map and compass for navigation purposes is a perishable skill. It really helps to keep a video of this in a bookmark for a yearly review if need be.
Very interesting thanks buddy. I'm glad there wasn't a quiz at the end. Lol😉🤣 Seriously well done and much appreciated! A huge refinement on my rather rudimentary map skills.
Kevin, who is the manufacturer of the maps you use? I use both Fisher and Voyageur maps for the BWCA. They are great maps, but use different measurements. So setting up the gps is fun. Thank you for the videos you produce and the knowledge you share with us.😊
I have recently watched both Compass videos. Both are well thought out and a big help. My only request is another map/compass video - maybe pace related?
Great video Kevin! One thing I'm slightly confused about. When you adjust your needle to line up the orienteering lines with the grid lines, doesn't that throw off your declination adjustment a bit? Do you just take that into consideration when taking a bearing afterwards?
It shouldn't because I have already adjusted for declination then I aligned my map to true north. Once the map is physically pointing to true north I no longer need to worry about declination. I then adjust the compass bezel to align with the UTM lines and the compass needle is pointing to magnetic north. it just lets me use the UTM lines with the compass.
Excellent videos. You must have military experience. If your map has the grid north declination on the map you can adjust the declination off the hop. I like the way you showed the method of adjusting to grid without having a grid azimuth on the map. On my Caltopo 7.5 map of a Halifax area hike the grid lines are out 1 mm from the top and bottom west side of the map (TN). Not a lot for the amount of travel I hike in a day. The map actually does not list the grid declination. On a long trip and a fair distance from the central meridian would make a difference. Great videos.
...showed a guy how to use his GPS one day. He was very long on Bush, but very short on Tech. Amazingly, he found it easiest to navigate simply by referring to the cor-ordinate numbers only, in his head, and seeing if they were plus or minus from his campsite's location numbers...he didn't want to use the breadcrumb trail screen...
Thanks Andy, yes I have it is catching on here as well. I believe the system was in the news last fall when someone who used it was found and were saved.
I am not sure you can. By UPS you mean the polar system? I don't have any experience with that and I don't think there is overlap between the two systems.
